stratus

名词 n.
/ˈstɹeɪtəs/|/ˈstɹæ-/|/ˈstɹɑː-/    /ˈstɹeɪtəs/|/ˈstɹæ-/|/ˈstɹɑ-/|[-ɾəs]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A principal, low-level cloud type in the form of a gray layer with a rather uniform base, usually not associated with precipitation, and capable of producing corona phenomena and a weak, uniform luminance. uncountable,usually
    — [page 99] Stratus. […] A widely extended, continuous, horizontal sheet, increasing from below. […] [page 357] When a stratus covers the ground at sun-rise, however, we often see it collect into cumuli upon the evaporation of that part of it which is immediately contiguous to the earth: […]

词形变化

strati plural

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ster-
Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃-
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *str̥h₃tós
Proto-Italic *strātos
Latin stratuslbor.
English stratus
Learned borrowing from Latin strātus (“spread or stretched out”). Coined by the British chemist and amateur meteorologist Luke Howard (1772–1864): see the 1803 quotation. Doublet of strath.
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